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slave.
WI. Greeley, a grandnephew OF
Horace Greeley, is the village barber
and fiddler at Spring Creek Station
Pa.
NH. Dalton, of Palatka, Fla, has
Maltese cat that is twenty-five years
old The cat is too deaf to be sue
cessful mouser, but isn't slow in get
ting around when a rat is near by.
A foreign lady who had not become
used to the English language, was in
vited to partake of some oysters. ''Oh,
thank you,'' she replied, "A little OF
the juice, please, none of the beasts. "
A lady was importuning Lord Roths-
child to direct her son into paying
business. Madam" said he, ''any
business is good; selling mptches even
is splendid business, if you do enough
Of it,"
One Of the largest stock farms in the
world is that owned by the Powell
Brothers, near Springsboro, Pa. 1t
covers an area of $500 acres. The
annual horse sales on the place amount
W OFtI FOOO,OOO.
A workman at the Carson mint has
discovered that drill points heated to
cherry red and tempered by driving in
to a bar Of lead will bore through the
hardest steel or plate glass without per-
ceptibly bunting.
Count Robilant, the Italian states
man, spent over twenty years Of his
life at Vienna as Ambassador. He lost
his left arm in battle. He is an IL
legitimate son Of King Charles Albert
of Sardinia, and, therefore, a kind of
an uncle to King Humbert.
A farmer at Ritzville, Washington
territory, sunk a well recently, In
instead Of striking water he found an
immense underground cavity, from
which stiff breeze continually blows,
accompanied with a noise like the
humming Of telegraph wires.
Senator Edmunds can make a soup
unequaIed for delicacy, can prepare a
beef tea ''that would make a professional
smack his lips, and sometimes recreates
by taking off his coat, putting on an
apron, and preparing calf s-foot jelly
after an old Vermont receipt
The original charter of Philadel-
phia as city, antedating by ten years
the one now hanging in independence
hall, which was supposed to be the
first, has been brought to light 1t is
dated 1891, and was held by a family,
who supposed it was simply an old title
deed.
In many parts of France heavy ma
chinery is run by artesian-well power.
The deeper the we'll the greater the
pressure. A well at Grenelle has
pressure Of sixty pounds to the square
inch, and the water is SO hot that it is
used for heating the hospitals in the
vicinity.
There is a man in the Yale class of '88
whose great-uncle is one of the two old
est living graduates of '37, who has
three uncles, four cousins, and three
brothers among the alumni and who has
several brothers and cousins preparing
for college. His name is not an
nounced.
The students of the University of
Pennsylvania have adopted the mortar
board cap and black gown of Oxford
because it is SO decidedly English,
doncherknow. The big pockets in the
gowns are found to be very convenient
for hiding notes and extracted book
pages on examination days.
The Bibilotheque Rationale, at Paris,
is the largest library in the world. The
logue of the books it contains. The
earliest nucleus Of library in France
was made by the Emperor Charlemagne
and some Of his manuscripts are stil'
preserved in the present collection.
A recent scene in Philadelphia
street-car shows the difficulty of accom-
plishing the niceties of pronunciation.
Two people were talking. Said one
''Either he or | will call on you" "You
should not say either" was the quick
rejoinder. You should say ither.
1t is the nominative not the subjunctive
case.n
Craig Tolliver, the Rowan County,
Ky.,) desperate. has been in Gin
cinnati purchasing dry goods to the
amount Of $4,000. He is now a Deputy
Sheriff Of the county he has terrorized,
is peaceful and law abiding citizen,
and has a successful business. He never
drinks whisky, and has given up
carrying revolver.
Arather ragged peddler went through
the Baltimore custom-house offering
packages of candy for sale. One of the
officials to shut him off. said: IN take
one if you'll change me $50 bill"
The peddler drew fat, greasy pocket
book and replied: Certainly. I'll
change you anything up to $1,000"
and by the looks of its contents it is
likely he could have kept his word.
The Russian Empress leads an active
and simple life. She rises early, and